No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISONAmericans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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